Biography: life and films
Val Guest was an English film director whose birth name was Valmond Maurice Grossmann. He was born in London, England on 11th December 1911 and died in Palm Springs, California, USA on 10th May 2006, aged 94.His best films as a screenwriter include Marcel Varnel's comedy Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937), Roy Ward Baker's Paper Orchid (1949), Life with the Lyons (1954), The Lyons in Paris (1955) and The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), and whose best work as a film director include Life with the Lyons (1954), The Lyons in Paris (1955), The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), Quatermass 2 (1957) and Yesterday's Enemy (1959).
Val Guest scripted 72 films, directed 46 films, appeared in 4 films and supplied the music for 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Marcel Varnel (17 films), Walter Forde (3), Lupino Lane (3) and Roy Ward Baker (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (49 films), drama (22), Thriller (9), Horror (4), comedy-romance (3), crime-thriller (2), comedy-thriller (2) and War (2).
Our average rating for Val Guest over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer; m = musician
Old Spanish Customers (1932) [a]
The Innocents of Chicago (1932) [a]
The Maid of the Mountains (1932) [a]
The Bermondsey Kid (1933) [a]
No Monkey Business (1935) [w]
A Star Fell from Heaven (1936) [w]
All In (1936) [w]
Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936) [w]
Alf's Button Afloat (1938) [w]
Old Bones of the River (1938) [w]
The Frozen Limits (1939) [w]
Band Waggon (1940) [w]
O-Kay for Sound (1940) [w]
Where's That Fire? (1940) [w]
Gasbags (1941) [w]
Hi Gang! (1941) [w]
I Thank You (1941) [w]
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) [w]
Back-Room Boy (1942) [w]
King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) [w]
Miss London Ltd. (1943) [d,w]
Bees in Paradise (1944) [d,w,m]
Give Us the Moon (1944) [d,w]
I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945) [d,w]
London Town (1946) [w]
Just William's Luck (1947) [d,w]
William Comes to Town (1948) [d,w]
Murder at the Windmill (1949) [d,w]
Once Upon a Dream (1949) [w]
Paper Orchid (1949) [w]
Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1950) [d,w]
The Body Said No! (1950) [d,w]
Another Man's Poison (1951) [w]
Happy Go Lovely (1951) [w]
Mister Drake's Duck (1951) [d,w]
Penny Princess (1952) [d,w]
Top of the Form (1953) [w]
Life with the Lyons (1954) [d]
The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) [d]
The Runaway Bus (1954) [d,w]
Break in the Circle (1955) [d,w]
Dance Little Lady (1955) [d,w]
The Lyons in Paris (1955) [d]
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) [d,w]
They Can't Hang Me (1955) [d,w]
It's a Wonderful World (1956) [d,w]
Women Without Men (1956) [w]
Carry on Admiral (1957) [d,w]
Quatermass 2 (1957) [d,w]
The Abominable Snowman (1957) [d,w]
The Weapon (1957) [d]
Further Up the Creek (1958) [d,w]
The Camp on Blood Island (1958) [d,w]
Up the Creek (1958) [d,w]
Expresso Bongo (1959) [d]
Yesterday's Enemy (1959) [d]
Dentist in the Chair (1960) [w]
Hell Is a City (1960) [d,w]
Life Is a Circus (1960) [d,w]
The Full Treatment (1960) [d,w]
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) [d,w]
Jigsaw (1962) [d,w]
80,000 Suspects (1963) [d,w]
The Beauty Jungle (1964) [d,w]
Where the Spies Are (1965) [d,w]
Casino Royale (1967) [d,w]
Assignment K (1968) [d,w]
Toomorrow (1970) [d,w]
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) [d,w]
Au Pair Girls (1972) [d,w]
Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) [d,w]
Mission: Monte Carlo (1974) [w]
Killer Force (1976) [d,w]
The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) [d]
The Boys in Blue (1982) [d,w]
The silent era of French cinema
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The very best fantasy films in French cinema
